Pablo Garcia

Pablo Garcia is a Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his research-based creative practice explores and reframes historical artistic processes for a 21st-century audience. His work examines the intersection of forgotten analog methods and cutting-edge digital technologies, paying homage to centuries of human-machine collaboration in art and design. Through a multidisciplinary approach, he investigates art-and-technology relationships across site-specific installations, machine-assisted drawings, kinetic sculptures, optical illusions, speculative architectures, and original scholarship.

Since 2013, he has commercially produced the NeoLucida, a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida. Initially designed as a media-archaeological research project, the device is now in the collections of international institutions, including the American Philosophical Society, the Yale Center for British Art, the Science Museum (London), the Polytechnic Museum (Moscow), and the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Geneva).

He has twice been named a Fulbright Scholar, and his extensive research on 600 years of drawing machines, documented at DrawingMachines.org, is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Garcia holds architecture degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University.